Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long last, dreamboat Private Elvis Presley was at sea. But before a military transport could waft him (along with 1,382 other G.I.s) to his truck-driving trick in West Germany, there was time at the dock for the slimmed-down crooner to record a tearful Christmas message to one and all (to be sold commercially), and drawl a quote or two for 100 waiting newsmen. Brightly confessing that his ideal girl was "female," Elvis showed why as he leaned down to give an impassioned fan a farewell nuzzle...
...questions was Choi's business; he chuckled and headed for Formosa. Early in September Choi was one of the first newsmen to hit the beaches of beleaguered Quemoy, safely wading ashore under a heavy artillery barrage only to suffer a severely bruised hip when his jeep rammed a truck...
...Army ordered Private Elvis Presley to West Germany as a truck driver...
...addiction." On the last day of the trials, Thompson crawled into his car, which stands only 32 in high, settled himself in the driver's seat, got a push from a truck until his engines thundered to life at 45 m.p.h., and set out for glory. Astonished timers caught his blurred passage on the first pass through the traps at 294,117. A new record seemed certain. But on the return trip, when Thompson got up to 280 m.p.h., three connecting rods on the front engine suddenly snapped under the strain, punched a hole in the engine block. Thompson...
...Binding. In Manhattan, a delivery truck of Barnes & Noble, Inc., publishers of school and college textbooks, has the word PASS painted in large letters on the left side of its tail gate, the word FLUNK on the right...